Politics makes the product

Product teams are taught to find value and to deliver it. That is necessary, and it is not enough. Part of the market is written elsewhere, by people who do not work in the company, often years before the product exists.
This series walks down three scales of decision and takes five points of view. Government first, seen from outside and then from inside, because it is the scale you see least and the one that decides earliest. The value network next, seen from the company: the customers, suppliers, funders, laboratories and trade federations a product depends on. The company last, seen from its own corridor, then from its capacity plan, that is, the work to be done set against the people available to do it. That last point of view is the only one looking upwards: what the company does with the time politics buys it.
Three episodes complete the journey: the eighth draws the line between network and politics, the ninth asks whether open source is a political tool or the backbone of a network, the tenth opens the product itself and shows, part by part, what Europe can still make.
At the end, one page brings together the instruments of the ten episodes in a sheet you fill in with your own data.